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Park, Frances , Park, Ginger

The Royal Bee

32 pp. | Boyds | February, 2000 | Trade ISBN 1-56397-614-5 $$15.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Christopher Zhong-Yuan Zhang. Song-ho is a poor peasant boy in Korea who eavesdrops outside a classroom that only admits privileged boys. The kindly teacher, however, allows him to attend, and so stellar is his academic performance that he represents the school in the Royal Bee--a yearly contest of knowledge. The rich oil paintings have a stately symmetry that reflects the language of the lengthy story.
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